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• the present invention relates to novel metal oxide clusters, ceramers made therefrom, and to the methods of making the same.
• Polymer-ceramic composites or ceramers have the potential to combine the properties of polymers and ceramics, particularly oxides, in useful ways.
• nanocomposites consist of alloys of polymers with ceramic particles of diameter much smaller than the wavelength of visible light. High refractive index, scratch and corrosion-resistant optical coatings and radiation- resistant coatings are such applications.
• Methods 1, 2, 3 have so far been used only for thin film coatings since a large surface must be available, permitting small molecule condensation products to evaporate during alkoxide hydrolysis and self-condensation into the oxide.
• Method 2 is an extension of Method 1 since an oxide cluster is also surface functionalized by an organic functional group. However, in Method 2, the small molecule condensation products are completely removed from the cluster in a separate step prior to fabrication.
• oxide clusters coated with photopolymerizable groups have been fabricated into high refractive index, optical waveguides by photolithography.
• metal oxide clusters are formed by reacting a metal alkoxide, (M(OR) n , with a substoichiometric amount of a non-aqueous acid and an oxide particle growth terminator and solubilizer.
• M(OR) n metal alkoxide
• the novel clusters are reacted with a 20 functionalized polymer which grafts onto the metal oxide clusters to form novel ceramers.
• the present invention is carried out using any metal capable of forming amphoteric metal 25 oxides, such as tantalum, niobium, indium, tin, and the like it will be described in connection with tantalum.
• the alkoxy group utilized it can be a C,,-C 3 alkoxy group, it is preferred to use an ethoxy group so that the preferred alkoxide used 30 in forming the clusters and resultant ceramers is o tantalum ethoxide.
• the acid used in the reaction it is preferred to use formic acid, although any acid can be utilized whose ester resulting from the reaction 35 with the metal alkoxide has a low vapor pressure; a vapor pressure such that it will evaporate below about 200°C.
• the growth terminator and solubilizer used is preferably ClSi(CH 3 ) 3 , although again any terminator also having a low vapor pressure as noted above with respect to the acid, can be utilized.
• tri-alkyl silane esters can be utilized, as can the chlorosilanes in which other alkyl groups, C 2 -C 7 , are submitted for the methyl group.
• suitable terminators include chloroalkyl compounds in which the Si is substituted by any metal or non- metal which can form monofunctional compounds, such as tin, indium, aluminum, sulfur, and the like.
• the functionalized polymer can be any thermoplastic or thermosetting polymer that has been functionalized so as to be capable of reacting with the metal oxide cluster.
• the functional group is preferably a hydroxyl group, although, epoxy, acidic, amino groups and the like can also be utilized. It is preferred to use thermoplastic hydroxyl functionalized phenoxy polymers. Also, as used herein the term "polymer” includes oligomers.
• the synthesis of transparent composites of tantalum oxide and a polymer requires that the oxide clusters be on the order of 1/10 the scale of visible light, that they be soluble in a common solvent with the matrix polymer, and interact with the polymer matrix exothermically to maintain a • compatible single phase blend.
• Melt processing also requires that the tantalum oxide phase be the discreet phase within a continuous phase of linear polymer.
• films can be cast of any composition provided that the components are compatible. It is clear that solid state ductility and impact strength will also be promoted by a high matrix polymer content. However, high tantalum contents are necessary for high X-ray absorption.
• tantalum oxide oligomers The structure of tantalum oxide oligomers has been explored several years ago and soluble tantalum oxide ethoxide oligomers were prepared by hydrolyzing tantalum ethoxide in alcohols and benzene. In these cases the tantalum maintains a (+5) oxidation state and hexaco-ordination with oxide, and ethoxide-either bonded by a primary or co-ordination bond with solvent. The oligomers became insoluble at degrees of hydrolysis, 1.56 ⁇ h ⁇ 1.69 depending on solution concentration at which point the models predicted a rapidly increasing molecular weight with added hydrolysis. The stoichiometry predicted by the equation,
• Ta(0Et) 5 + 2.5H 2 0 ->l/2 Ta- * + 5Et0H is obtained only by a model at the hexamer stage.
• Ta-OR and the Ta-0(H)R co-ordinative bonds are quite labile in the presence of other alkoxide species.
• Reaction with organic esters is also possible by transesterification and reaction with ⁇ diketones and ketone esters.
• a typical transesterfication reaction is: 2) Ta(0Et) 5 + 5Me 3 SiC(0)0Me -> Ta(0SiMe 3 ) 5 +
• linear, amorphous polymers that contain aryl or aryl-alkyl ether linkages exhibit high impact strength and ductility between a high T g and a subambient, backbone ⁇ relaxation that origniates in the aryl or alkyl oxygen linkage.
• the linear hydroxy polyether made by reacting bisphenol A and epichlorohydrin in base (phenoxy polymer) behaves in this fashion with a T g of 100°C and considerable room temperature ductility.
• the phenoxy polymers are hydrolytically stable.
• the secondary hydroxyl has the potential to react by the formation of esters or ethers, and thus, with the Ta-OR bond.
• Tantalum ethoxide is reacted with formic acid according to the stoichiometry for the reaction:
• NMR indicates that hydrolysis of the tantalum ethoxide is almost instantaneous.
• the single hydroxylic resonance moves upfield until visual gelation at 20 min.
• the gel that forms at this time is quite transparent and there is no clear phase separation.
• the hydroxylic NMR splits into two resonances at this time - a sure sign of phase separation into a mobile and a viscous phase.
• the narrow resonance at 7.3 ppm collapses and a broader peak at 7.17 ppm suddenly appears in addition to a small remaining, narrow peak in the mobile phase at 7.27 ppm.
• Increased width of the resonance occurs as the dipolar broadening increases in a new phase of higher viscosity until the viscous phase peak disappears into the background between 30-60 minutes.
• the powder with tantalum oxide weight percentages less than 60% can be compression molded at 150° into transparent plaques.
• UV-visible spectroscopy reveals no change of the optical transparency of the 60 Ta-40 phenoxy upon exposure to N 2 H 2 -H 2 0 for two hours at room temperature there are some minor changes observed in the IR spectrum of exposed thin films.
• the 60Ta-40 phenoxy films can be cast onto polycarbonate of bisphenol A (PC) and the plaque molded to produce a sandwich arrangement which has the potential for high X-ray absorption windows with chemical resistance and good mechanical and optical properties.
• PC bisphenol A
• the FTIR spectra of the Ta-0-Si powder revealed Ta-0 stretching at 1000-600 cm "1 , hydroxide peaks at 3500 and 1600 cm '1 . Superimposed are the narrow peaks at 1250, 840, 800 and 750 cm *1 , due to the Si(Me) 3 vibrations. Heating up to 200°C does not remove the silane vibrations, indicating bonding through Ta-0-Si. However, heating does not remove OH vibrational intensity and ultimately leads to insolubility of the powder in methoxyethanol. Condensation of excess surface Ta-OH to extended network Ta-0-Ta probably accounts for this. Attempts to postreact the hydroxyl groups of Ta-0-Si with refluxing (Me) 3 SiCl for 12 hrs. was unsuccessful, probably because most of the hydroxyls were internal to the tantalum oxide cluster.
• the Ta-0-Si powder could be readily dissolved in refluxing 2-methoxyethanol.
• FTIR of cast films showed that the Ta-0Si(Me) 3 groups had been replaced by Ta-OCH 2 CH 2 0Me (triplet at 1100 cm '1 -ether oxygen stretch). After 12 hrs. at 200° in air the organic component was completely removed; however, almost complete elimination of the hydroxy group was obtained after only 15 min at 200°C. Amorphous tantalum oxide stretching vibrations represented the only remaining peaks. Apparently the methoxyethoxide group is less strongly bound to the Ta center than the siloxyl group.
• the susceptibility of Ta-0-M0E0 to substitution by methyl alcohol provided a rational for codissolution with phenoxy polymer with the expectation that, upon casting, the secondary hydroxyl of the phenoxy polymer would displace the methoxyethanol and form a single phase blend.
• the only concern was that the degree of substitution, and consequently crosslinking, would be too great at an early stage, thus preventing useful processing such as compression molding which requires a thermoplastic-like continuous phase.
• the reaction with the functionalized polymer is carried out in any alcohol that is a solvent for both the oxide and the polymer, such as 2-methoxyethanol and the like.
• a 60Ta-40phenoxy film cast at 100°C is transparent between 400-2700nm (A 2800nm absorbance is an OH vibrational absorbance) .
• the absorbance starting at wavelengths shorter than 400nm originates in the Ta-0-Ta bond. It is present in neat Ta 2 0 5 gels derived from the formic acid process (50 Ta(0Et) 5 :50 HCOOH) and starts to intensify and shift into the visible with heating and probably results from impurity states having a charge transfer character (Ta(+5) ⁇ -> Ta (+4)).
• a light yellow color is apparent in 2mm thick plaques
• the trialkyl siloxane coated tantalum oxide nanoclusters have the general formula Ta ⁇ 0 y (0SiR 3 ) z in which Ky/x ⁇ 2.5 and Kz/y ⁇ 2 and the alkoxide coated nanoclusters have the general formula Ta ⁇ 0 y (OR) 2 in which R is a lower alkyl, methoxyalkyl, or ethoxyalkyl group and Ky/x ⁇ 2.5 and Kz/y ⁇ 2.
• composition Ta ⁇ 0 (0SiMe 3 ) z (Ta-0-Si) This powder was stable for months under nitrogen and was soluble 4-5% by weight in 2- methoxyethanol, ethanol, and methanol and insoluble in non-hydrolytic polar solvents such as dimethylformamide, dimethylsulfoxide and acetonitrile.
• the Ta-O-Si powder was dissolved in boiling 2- methoxyethanol to form a clear solution of 4% weight fraction.
• This solution was mixed at different volume ratios with 10 wt% solution of 67,000 M phenoxy polymer (Polysciences) in 2-methoxyethanol and cast into thin films on glass, AgCl or Kbr at 100° or vacuum rotoevaporated at 80°C to form a clear film of the blend.
• films with more than 80 wt% of added Ta-0-Si were brittle and could be powdered at room temperature. However, films with lower added Ta-0- Si contents were ductile and were powdered at liquid nitrogen temperatures.
• Powders with 60% added Ta-0-Si or less could be vacuum compression molded into multimillimeter thick plaques.
• 0.6g of powder is placed within a 1.2 cm diameter compression die with removable base disk and sealed with a piston.
• This whole assembly is placed within a vacuum die of 5.6cm diameter with a heating jacket controlled by a Chromalox controller (Carver) .
• the die is sealed with the top piston evacuated and heated to 100°C to remove any volatiles.
• the radiation dosage in rad units is the result of all unabsorbed photons of significant energy that emerge from the back end of the plaque.
• the most advantageous absorber is one that contains the highest percentage of heavy element.
• a thickness of several times the kinematic absorption length for the first photon permits multiple readsorption of multiple-inelastically, scattered photons.
• the absorbance of a 1 cm thick plaque for 0.1 MeV and 1.0 MeV photons was calculated.
• the mass absorption coefficients of the various elements were used to calculate the absorbance of the composite material for different weight percentages of Ta 2 0 5 .
• the expected composite density is calculated by assuming that: 6 ) Peo ⁇ p ⁇ va + V b ⁇ b' where a and b are tantalum and phenoxy polymer and p i and V,-, are the density and volume fraction of the components.
• the expected absorbance for a 1 cm plaque of 60Ta is about 0.5 at 0.1 MeV and about 0.013 at 10 MeV.
• the absorbance of the positron annihilation gamma at 0.5 MeV would be about 0.04 for 60Ta as opposed to the 0.13 expected for pure tantalum oxide. This again verifies that any practical composite face shield would be useful only for radiation below 0.2 MeV.
• Example 1 The procedure of Example 1 is carried out except that an equivalent amount of tin and indium are substituted for the tantalum in the alkoxide.
• tantalum species can be used as optical wave guides, and corresponding tin and indium species be used as corrosion-resistant coatings, transparent electrically conducting plaques, and the like. hile the invention has been described in connection with a preferred embodiment, it is not intended to limit the scope of the invention to the particular form set forth, but on the contrary, it is intended to cover such alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

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